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https://github.com/dasch/minx

A library for creating massively concurrent applications in Ruby
https://github.com/dasch/minx

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A library for creating massively concurrent applications in Ruby

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/dasch/minx
Owner: dasch
License: mit
Created: 2010-02-07T17:51:33.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2012-10-29T09:29:17.000Z (about 12 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-04-27T01:02:18.596Z (8 months ago)
Language: Ruby
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Size: 230 KB
Stars: 5
Watchers: 2
Forks: 0
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

Minx
====

Massive and pervasive concurrency with Minx!

Minx uses the powerful concurrency primitives outlined by Tony Hoare in his
famous book "Communicating Sequential Processes". This library was written
as part of [my bachelor thesis](http://cl.ly/2E2s471i122S3I1s3W30).

Usage
-----

Minx lets you easily create concurrent programs using the notion of *processes*
and *channels*.

```ruby
# Very contrived example...
chan = Minx.channel

Minx.spawn { chan.write("Hello, World!") }
Minx.spawn { puts chan.read }
```

These primitives, although simple, are incredibly powerful when composing highly
concurrent applications. When reading from or writing to a channel, a process
yields execution -- and thus blocks until another process also participates in
the communication. An example of when this would be useful is a simple network
server:

```ruby
# Create a channel for the incoming requests.
requests = Minx.channel

# Spawn 10 workers.
10.times do
Minx.spawn do
requests.each {|request| handle_request(request) }
end
end
```

In the near future, evented IO will be implemented, allowing for highly
performant network and file applications.

Documentation
-------------

See [the full documentation](http://rubydoc.info/github/dasch/minx/master/frames).